Introduction. The calculating engines of English mathematician Charles Babbage (1791-1871) are among the most celebrated icons in the prehistory of computing. Babbageâs Difference Engine No.1 was the first successful automatic calculator and remains one of the finest examples of precision engineering of the time.ublications about Charles Babbage: 1  Charles Babbage. 2  Passages from the Life of a Philosopher. ( 3 New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ, 1994). 4  Babbage, Henry Prevost. 5  Babbage's Calculating Engines: A Collection of Papers. ( 6 Los Angeles: Tomash, 1982) Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series, vol. 7  2.
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White Rose extension plans set for approval. Plans for a 185,000 sq ft extension of White Rose Shopping Centre in south Leeds which could create about 1,000 jobs have been recommended for outline approval.